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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 483
ECUADOR: Guayas: Guayaquil, Mille 10 (N);Sodiro (N); Sinclair
(K); Hinds (K); Barclay 2457 (BM); Ruiz & Pavdn (Ma).
Rose 23598 (G, N, Y). Daule, Andre 4142 (K).
PERU: San Martin: Juan Guerra, L. Williams 6843 (N).
Duran,
BOLIVIA: Sunchal, Herzog 2003 (B). Beni: Reis, White (Mulford
Biol Expl. 1216; N, Y). La Paz: Guanai, Tate 592 (Y). Yungas,
Bang 646 (N, Ph, Y). Santa Cruz: Herzog 1319 (B). Buena Vista,
Steinbach 5225 (G, Gen).
BRAZIL: Lund (Cop, Gen); Salzmann 289 (Gen). Para: Santarem,
Spruce (V). Maranhao: G. Don 131 (Brux). Ceara: Cedro,
Lofgren 45 (S). Pernambuco: Tapera, Pickel 2375 (N); Gardner
1024 (K). Bahia: Blanchet in 1831 (Gen, Y). Bahia, Blanchet 16
(BM), 252 (V), 291 (BM, Gen), 608 (BM);Glocker 545 (BM, N, S);
Lhotsky in 1831 (Gen). Matto Grosso: Cuyaba, Malme 1186 (S).
Palmeiras, Lindman A2409 (S).
Rio de Janeiro: Morro de Cavallao,
Glaziou 10873 (B, K).
PARAGUAY: Asuncion, Morong 577 (G, N, Y). Rio Pilcomayo,
Morong 935 (K, N, Ph, Y). Maracayi, Hassler 4791 (BM). ^illa
Rica, Jorgensen 3789 (N). Estancia Armenia, Anisits 1905 (S).
Passiflora foetida is
represented in the Linnean Herbarium by a
single sheet, which was in Linnaeus' hands in 1753. The stem is
hirsute with long, spreading hairs; the lateral lobes of the leaves are
much reduced (midnerve: lateral nerves, 2.5: 1); the bracts are subequal
to the sepals and not closely interwoven; the ovary is pilose.
The figure in the Amoenitates, the first reference cited by Linnaeus
under P. foetida in the Species Plantarum, agrees well with the leaves
of the Linnean specimen.
The second reference in the Species Plantarum is to Linnaeus'
Philosophia Botanica (p. 260), and here we have an excellent diagnosis.
Linnaeus, in discussing the ideal description of a species, gives
descriptions of three plants, one to illustrate the error of being too
brief and indefinite, another to illustrate the danger of making too
detailed a diagnosis which would describe an individual plant rather
than a species, and a third the ideal description. By chance, Passiflora
foetida was the species selected by him for the ideal description,
so that we have a rather more ample description of this than of other
Linnean species. Omitting the features that are characteristic of
P. foetida in its widest sense, major points in this description are:
spreading, unequal hairs on the stem; leaves obsoletely 3-lobed,
entire and obscurely ciliate at the margin, bearing stiff hairs on both